I’m finally alive and well in New Jersey, counting down until classes start at Rutgers.
I flew in to Boston and crashed with Alex, then took a nice little road trip down here.
I moved in to my new apartment.
I’ve even already gone to a concert in the city (Ted Leo and the Pharmacists at the McCarren […]
My family’s dog, Zoe, is probably the laziest dog in the world:
I’ve created a chronology of her day, for your viewing pleasure.
Starting in the fall, I’ll officially be a PhD student!
On Friday, I took a trip down to scenic New Brunswick, New Jersey to visit the Linguistics Department at Rutgers.
I wasn’t exactly thrilled to take a 6am train, but at least the scenery was pretty:
In spite of the early morning travel, I had a great […]
Very interesting things are said when people don’t think you can understand them.
The other week when I was at UMB to meet with Luis Alonso-Ovalle, I overheard two custodians engaged in the following conversation, translated from the Spanish.
Is it sad when your life is captured by what is supposed to be a hyperbole?
I’m fairly certain that this is how every meeting Inside the writer’s room of Battlestar Galactica starts:
“Ok guys, which characters’ lives can we completely ruin even more than we’ve already done?”
Last night, Danny and I went to my favorite Indian restaurant, Diva Indian Bistro in Davis Square.
Now, it being a Friday night, and Davis Square being a pretty happenin’ spot, parking was… tough… to say the least. After fifteen minutes of circling, we found a spot at last. As we were about to […]
It looks like my laptop (a 3+ year old 15" 1Ghz G4 Powerbook) is in its final throes At least, the hard drive is. It keeps making clicking sounds and then crashing, much like a banshee’s shriek signaling imminent death.
I have a few options (which I’d appreciate your opinion on):
Replace the hard […]
Discomfort dis·com·fort /dɪsˈkʌmfərt/ [dis-kuhm-fert]
- noun
1. Finding out that your peanut butter and your bar of soap are made by the same company
While rummaging through the cupboard making breakfast today, I noticed a strange logo on the jar of peanut butter - a U comprised of lots of small graphics.
That’s right folks, Unilever, the people who […]
A tree made with qtree
So, I’ve been playing a lot with LaTeX the last few days (brought on, in part, but the LSA conference), and I’m really starting to like it.
You can see the results of my playing here (pdf).
Aside from being able to easily typeset really pretty trees, tables, and OT tableaux, a really […]
Well, I survived my first LSA conference! In fact, I’d go as far as to say I did more than survive - I even had a good time and learned a few things!
The Tensor organized a little linguablogger meetup, and even though I don’t fall into that category, housing JonW has certain benefits and […]
I have this problem where when I see an actor in something, the next thing I see them in, I sometimes carry over that last role into the new thing I’m watching. (How was that for mangling English?)
For example, the first movie I ever saw with Edward Norton was Death to Smoochy. Anything […]
Not that it was any question, but Xena (as played by Lucy Lawless) could *totally* take Hercules (as played by Kevin Sorbo) in a fight.
Then, in SciFi land, Lawless wins again: Number Three would wipe the floor with Dylan Hunt.
Finally, we have this, from The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horrors X (via Danny):
With evil thwarted […]
Well, it’s not really a joke. And probably only the linguists and mathematicians in the house will get it. But:
There was just an ad on TV for the Jeep Commander. The announcer said “see Commander and the rest of the Jeep line of vehicles” or somesuch. I parsed it as “C-Commander”.
In […]
As linguists deal with language on a daily basis (well, to be fair, I should hope that most people use language daily, but you know what I mean), they were bound to come up with some pretty crazy terms to describe things. I’ve started collecting some of my favorites on the wiki. Linguists, […]
JenSB, STN, and I made jack-o-lanterns yesterday!
STN’s Jack Skellington jack-o-lantern [the one on the left] came out particularly well.
While we’re on the subject of pictures, photos from Chris and my trip down to Northampton/Amherst for our Oxford summer program reunion are online here. I really liked the area, which makes me happy that I’m […]
Last night, Mark decided that I was stressing out too much about the GRE (which I am taking in less than 3 hours…). In order to keep it off my mind, he was benevolent enough to declare that any use of the letters “g” “r” or “e”, or the sounds that they make, would […]
Not fickle courses, mind you. Just that the tests are fickle, and there will be something about courses in this post.
I may be influenced largely by the fact that I’m taking the GRE (or as Danny called it, the ToD) on Friday, but I’m even further convinced than before that standardized testing is a […]
I won’t go into the details of the evening, but suffice it to say that Chris and I spent the evening in Boston, involving ghosts of freshman RAs past, awkward seating arrangements, a parrot, and a second visit by the RA and his beau. (If you’re actually interested, there’s a play-by-play in a friended […]
I’ve finally settled into a pretty steady routine for the time being.
At the moment, things are dominated by the GREs, or as Danny calls them the ToD. I’ve been told that grad schools in linguistics weigh them less heavily than the other application materials, but at this point, “it’s personal”. So every night […]